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VOL. XII FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1907 NO. 52 gREEPORT NEW S Review finishes : Economy- gas range -practise it by using the I t . ' W ith this issue the its thirteenth year. A regular meeting of the Villlage Board will be held next Friday even ing. R. H. Kelby has returned to his city home for the winter. Village Trustees I a ttention was called to the fact that j Mr. Murray did not know anything All the members of the Village j about the work of trim m ing lights and Board of Trustees were present at the j he replied that Mr. Murray could easily rn and would give his entire tim e BELLMORE ROCKVILLE CENTRE Mr. and Mrs. E. C. been visiting friends Mass. Burdorff have in Fitchburg, If you are in business and do not use gas, for lighting, you are losing cus-! |om ers. It. See adv. by auctioneer S.^ P. P e ttit of valuable residence and household furniture. Slates and slate pencils now on sale j a t the Nassau County Review Station ery Department. j Single copies of the Review for sale. ™r,]inK1>’ f cePtod «\d turned over at H. Gobetz’s and I. DaSilva’s or at Wide Awake Eng,no Co. and ,s the Review office. The M. E. Sunday School is busily preparing for its fair to be held on the afternoons and evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 19 and 20. Fred Monendez of BeHmore guarali ters as represented everything sold by Mrs. Helena Loeb of New Haven. ; him No exagcration or mDrepient- Conn., is visiting her sister, Mrs. M u r-, at on. If in need of a can age or ris M iller ! wagon, write for a representative to _________ ! call for p a n ionlars; see adv. tf regular m eeting Friday evening. Chief W alter B. Cozzens of the fire departm ent made a report of the work done by the new third-class Nott fire engine, which met with the approval of the Board and the engine was ac- to now housed in their new uiarters on Church St. corner Pino St. The Board seemed of the opinion that the engine was the best around, and the j opinion of a practical engineer was ! quoted that “ it is the best on Long Is land, not excepting any in the city of Brooklyn. ’’ Chief Cozzens and Foreman Acker man of Wide Awake Engine Company : recommended that William Bornscheuer Mrs. Simpson has rented her house to a party from Jam aica. Mr. and Mrs. Whitson Colyer spent . . . , ,, ,, „ Sunday with their son Clifford in P h U - \ r J \ enter am m ent in the M E. adelohia I Church Monday evening was a nnan- ________ I cial success and a good performance A young jew e ler—jewel, his parents| WT' furnished by Miss Augusta Grim think, is being entertained by Mr. and 1 and Miss Jennie CooDer from t''11 Mrs. George Fyfe. Ross & Randall are now closing their yards at 5 :30 instead of 6:00 o’clock as before. This is a good move. : be appointed janitor of the new engine i between house; the Board decided that this was | m o n th.” i a m a tter for the company to settle and i referrred it back to them. The N. Y. and N. J. Telephone Com pany was given permission to erect poles on South Side Avenue, and to re- I place poles with larger ones on a part of Lena Avenue; the necessqry per- Let us know what magazines you mission of property owners was filed want and we will got them for you if with the application, we can. We carry a large supply on v ,.„. i „ v ,,. l - w n ,ilbert ,r hand nc and attention to the work, ensuring good service. Trustee Stevens offered a resolution that “ we dispense with Mr. N iles’ ser vices and get someone to fill his place between now and Nov. 1. ” Trustee Patterson voted yes with Stevens ard Trustee Bedell and Sig mund voted no, leaving the deciding vote to President Morrison who voted no. There was some discussion regard ing the wording of the motion so Trus tee Stevens offered the following reso lution, upon which the vote was the same except that Trustee Morrison voted y e s : “ Resolved that this Board request the resignation of Mr. Niles and look for some one to fill his place The annual fall reception and dance 1 of the Alert Hose Company, No. 2, will ! be held in Atheneum Hall on Wednes- H. Colder and E. B. Fish of this | day evening, November 13. place have gone with a gunning party East, duck shooting. Win. Brockman’s new house is near ing completion, and will be ready for occupancy next week. The Bellmore Juniors defeated the Merrick Juniors in a closely contested game at Merrick last week by the score of 9 to 4. and Miss Jennie Cooper from the Lyceum Bureau, New York. Star The ladies of Freeport are invited to read the adv. of Mrs. Flack Best, fash ionable dressmaker, in the Review this week. \ Nassau County Stationery Department. Review, Next Wednesday evening Rev. F. O. Cunningham will give his illustrated stereopticon lecture on “ A Holiday in Frederick W. G was approved as a member of Wide Awake Engine Company. The hills of John W. Cotter and Albert Hutton for sidewalks were ap proved and the clerk directed to open accounts w ith them, to allow them now and the first of the Trustee Sigmond said he was not in favor of' keeping any man who was not satisfactory to thC- Board, but he did not believe in “ h itting a man in the back.” Theodore Richards complained of someone shooting through the win dows of his m o ther’s house at 23 Rose St. The m a tter was referred to the captain of police. The following resolution was unani mously passed: “ Whereas, it has bee n the custom for the past few years to grant the ap plication of petitioners to construct granitoid or cement sidewalks and The annual smoker and entertain ment of the Democratic Association will he held in Firem e n ’s Hall this (Thursday) evening. The euchre and reception, for the benefit of the new Catholic Church, in Firem en’s Hall next Monday evening, promises to he a successful event. The laying of the corner stone of the new school house, which was to have been celebrated this Saturday a f ternoon, has been postponed one week •Vil' to Saturday, Nov. 2. The Village has had two large three cluster lamps of thirty-tw o candle pow er erected upon the Southern boulevard, between Village and Centre Avenues. A fire in the roof of the building in the rear of Nathan Cohen’s store on Village Avenue called out the firemen Saturday about noon. 1 The firemen responded so. readily that they were enabled to extinguish the blaze before it had made much headway, and the loss was therefore small, and it is ful ly covered. The cause of the tire is unknown. It is a fortunate thing that the fire was discovered as soon as it was, as the building, which is of frame, is located right in the heart of the business section, and a fire at this point might have been real serious. have three-quarters of the cost of same The New York and Long Island T e l- ' Euro.pe” in the B a p tist Church, under three-fourths of the cost on their road | credited to the applicant on their i i i ' i„ taxes. i s treet tax upon proper presentation of President Morrison as special com- j p j|]> an(j m it tee reported that he had secured e s - ' W hereas, it seems to this Board that tim a tes from three of the fire insurance j this practise should be discontinued for agents of the village for $25,000 insur- j the present, be it now therefore ance on the power house. Resolved That no permission he Ih e m a tter was left to President granted for construction of cement or Morrison with power. | g ranitoid sidewalks in the incorporated X l i e IN U W X V I IV t m u X-tVlILi J M W II 1 U I V I - . . r . . »» . . , z , . , ephone Company, formerly the South I auspices of the_Laches_ Circle. Shore Telephone Company, has discon tinued. The first Fall meeting of the Jr. Y. P. S. C. E. will be held in the Presby terian Chapel next Thursday afternoon, at 3 :15 o’clock. Mrs. Fuller, who has been soprano soloist in the M. E. Church, has r e signed to go abroad for a course of special voice culture. Sunday, Oct. 27, will be tier last day of singing in the church. ' Miss H a ttie Gregory of Sullivan County, N. Y., spent Saturday and Sun day with her cousin, Mrs. Wesley Pear sall, Raynor Street. jr~EcTward Sherwin & Co., stock ex change brokers, are to open an office in tha Freeport Bank building, to be managed by Ernest H. Wallace. Attention is directed to the adv. of Mrs. M a rgaret Munroe in this issue. Mrs. Munroe gives lessons in elocution, and rehearses and directs stage work. Rev. F. O. Cunningham of the Bap tis t Church will preach in the Presby terian Church, in exchange with the pastor, next Sunday morning and evening. Monday, Nov, 4, is the regular day for executing pension vouchers. I will bo in my office all day as far as possi ble, to attend to this work. Smith F. Pearsall, Review Building. Although it seems practically impos sible to avoid coughs at this season, serious results from them may be pre vented by taking a remedy which Chas. P. Smith mentions in his ad. in this issue. ^ It. D r W. B. Kelly of Rockville Centre is a graduate of the New York Univer sity and is a thorough man in the sev eral branches of v eterinary surgery and m edicine; give him a tria ; ’phone, 271 J - l , Rockville Centre. lax Collector E. A. Dorlon reported j v illage of Freeport unless such side- ,,i. Bring your dime and have a good collecting sum of $344.75 since last | walk he constructed at the owner’s M time with the Daughters of America report, making a total of $14,768.77. ; e n tire expense and without anv credit on their social night, luesday evening, The report of e n g ineer Smith for the | for sam e; am| be it further resolved Octooer 29, IJO. at f raternity Hall month of September showed that the j th a t any resolution heretofore passed , I here will be entertainm e n t and re- plant had been operated 391 hours and ] a iiowjng sueh credit for the construc- U. 2.i minutes, using 281,338 lbs. of coal. ; tfion of cement or granitoid sidewalk The 110 arc lamps had been burned 215 j js hereby rescinded, hours and 2,547,100 gallons of w a ter j ‘ -phe Board then audited a number of had been pumped. I routine bills, including those for re- The following applications for w a ter | o airs at the power house, after which were granted: Fred Ortell, Raynor | t hey adjourned until Nuv. 1. S t . ; E. Anderson, Bedell S t . ; C. H. 1 S E A F O R D A new platform is being built at the L. I. R. R. station. Jam es Ram bo of New York spent Sunday w ith his aunt, Mrs. Stock. An autumn festival was held in the Guild Room on Wednesday evening. The Ladies’ Guild will meet with Mrs. George L. Weeks next Wednes day afternoon. Mrs. Cook and son John Cooke, of spent Sunday with Mrs. J freshments served. A large delegation from Freeport attended the Firem e n ’s Convention at Greenport Thursday and had a right good time. Next year this convention (of the Southern New York Volunteer Firem en’s Association) will be held at Hicksville. There will be a moving picture en tertainm e n t in the Y. M. I. C. Hall this Friday evening. Canhtties and wagons, all prices, at Fred Memmdez, Bellmore, successor to Colvin & C o .; see adv. tf Platt, Roosevelt Place; Andrew T a ft, Raynor St. Light applications were granted to Smith Cox, Main St., and C. R. Lea, W est Merrick Road. Trustee Stevens called attention to the danger of children passing W est Merrick Road on their way to school when there were so many automobiles using the road, and upon his motion R. T. Prodgers and family and W ill iam Beniston and family have returned to Brooklyn for the winter. A lantern knocked over Thursday evening about seven o’clock caused a blaze in the barn of Jacob Post, back of his building and the American laun dry on Main Street. Mr. Kriegler, proprietor of the laundry, kept his horse, wagon, hay and some chickens in the barn, while lo s t, had a quanity Captain Dunbar was directed to have of window sash stored in the structure. an offit.er placed there from 8 to 9:30, The fire burned rapidly and before n .80 to L :30 and from 2 to 4. the fire departm e n t could get their R A Mansfield Hobbs complained apparatus to the building it was e n - . a g .till of the condition of Pearsall ave- veloped in flames. Kriegler managed nue running west Frfvni Long Beach to save his nurse and also his chickens. avenutli which becomes almost impass ible as soon as cold weather sets in. A delivery wagon an d , some other effects were destroyed. The building, which stood close to several others, including the laundry, and also the store building of F. C. Willis, had a nominal insurance on it. A special musical service, as an nounced last week, will be held in the Church of the Transfiguration Sunday evening a t 7 :30? corner Avenue and Pine Street. Funeral services a t his late residence Sunday afternoon a t 2 o’clock, Rev. Dr. Ketcham officiating. Interm e n t Long Beach j will be in Greenfield Cemetery. A A very at- j d aughter and a son.survive him. tractive program has been prepared by i „ -------------- Mr. Tebbutt, organist; everybody in- Edna Smith v^ ed* Miss Edna Smith, daughter o f ' Mr. , „ „ . and Mrs. W alter R. Smith, died Sun- J. E d w a rd, Sherwin & Co. , have at the family residence on North opened a stock brokers office in the j MaiW s tm > t after a Angering illness, Freeport Bank Building, m charge o f 1 E. H. Wallace. Mr. Sherwin was a comrade of A. B. Wallace during the Spanish American war in Cuba, and Sunday School. And beloved by a large the firm is a member of the Copsoh- .. ........ i ....... . ................ .. dated Stock Exchange. He protested strenuously against the condition allowed to exist there and asked thaV&ome means of relief be de vised at oni'e. Trustee Morrison replied th a t he I was aware of the condition of the place O B I T U A R Y mentioned and he bad had the m a tter W illiam Smith died at 143 East Mer- of repairing it under consideration, but rick Road, Freeport, on Wednesday ^ ‘l u ! ! morning of paralysis, aged 78 years BALDW IN Rennie Smith has secured a position with the L. I. R. R. A chowder supper will be served in the Guild Room next Wednesday even ing. for the benefit of the Church of St. Michaael and All Angels. Dr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Steele and son | Mrs. Ketcham and Mrs. Otto Hasne- Donald a re at the Jamestown Exposi- d(,r were chosen delegates from the lo- Gon. ; cal church to attend the farewell re- Wm. Stoothoff spent last week a t the , jJPtion given to Canon Bryan at Great Jamestown Exposition and other places ; Neck~ ___ of interest. LYNBROOK J. S. M acArthur and family are spending the week at Dr. Steele's res*: Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. DcYinvy idence. Central Avenue. and family are now occupying their handsome new residence on Union Menus Bedell, who has been riding Place, a series of motor paced cycle races in Europe, returned last week. Mrs. Mary E. Holmes entertained the Ladies’ Aid Society of Hempstead at I. W. A rthur’s residence Monday evening. Thieves broke into the tailor shop of Henry Boll on Wednesday night and made away w ith four suits of clothing and three over coats. aged 23 years. Miss Smith was a young woman of exemplary character, a member of the M. E Church and Postm aster Pearsall’s new building is being rushed along and it v.ji 11 un- Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moore have douhtedly be completed at an early returned from Brooklyn, where they ^a^e' As soon as this building will be have been visiting their son. Chas. j completed, the Moore, for the past month. circle of friends. Fneral services were held Tuesday evening from her late Chas. K. Hamaker has finished a sum m er lottage for Austin Ellison and is to erect a sim ilar one for Gordon Ellison, near A tlantic Avenue. Mr. Ham aker has also secured contracts for remodeling the house of Mrs. Kate Wolfing. Glenada Court, and the store and dwelling of Jos. J. Albin. residence, w ith interm ent a t Greenfield Cemetery Wednesday. Communication by grading Long Beach avenue south to the West Merrick Road and there was no money on hand w ith which to do this work. He would arrange to have an appropriation for this m a tter placed in the budget at the next election. In the meantime it was decided to direct Street Commissioner Pine to see what repairs could he made to the corner mentioned. H. S. Stair, Jr., asked that a village electric light pole be moved from where it stands in front of his m o ther’s residence on -Bergen Place, so that he. The Ladies’ Aid Society met at Mrs. could put down a cement driveway. ' M o tt-s on Tuesday afternoon and Electrician W: llirg was instructed VQrt a verv pleasant time. Prepara- t\ attend to the m a tter without delay. : tions are being made for a Christmas TrusteeSteyens, committee on lights, 3ale of articles suitable for the holi- .n„,i 1 to the fact that da lason. Miss Agnus Hahij u , who has boon spending the past six months in tour ing Europe, has returned to her home on Union Avenue. Fred Monendez of Bellmore has a large selection as well as assortment of carriages and wagons: both new and second hand; see adv. tf A red letter occasion in the annals of ( barter Oak Council, No. 1415, Ko- Arcanum, of Rockville Centre, celebrated Thursday night, when,, after a long dearth of inactivity, Char ter Oak Council showed that, it had re sumed its old tim e activity in Arcanum work by conferring the initiatory de give upon John Joseph Ryan and John ! Anton Bittner. There was a large attendance, and in addition to the members of the local council, there were dozens of visitiyg members present, in addition to a dele gation of over fifty members from Washington-1 rving Council, No. 831, of Brooklyn, who arrived in a special trolley car. Following the business\ meeting, those present proceeded to Munk’sCafo where an elaborate collation had been prepared under the direction of Orator Alfred Roberts, and his committee. At a meeting of the- Village Board of Trustees last week, the action of Trustee Ijuinn in having new w a ter gates installed at Randall and Village and Randall and Centre Avenues, as well as ordering the removal of the hy drant from the centre of the roadway at State Street and the Southern Boule vard, was approved. Permission was granted the Fire Departm ent to take one of the hose wagons to Greenport on Thursday so that the firemen m ight he equipped to enter the contests at the tournament held there on that date. By request, an officer will lie station ed in front of St. M ark’s Methodist Episcopal Church, Village Avenue and Southern Boulevard, every Sunday af ternoon, so as to afford protection to the children attending Sunday School, from passing automobiles. The application of Joseph M a m an for appointment on the police force was placed on file. The Board approved the eleetimi of Frederick Gerhold as a member of the Alert Hose Company, No. 2. The application of Jacob Brouwer, John M. Smith and .John Lyon for elec tric light service were granted. Trustee Quinn was appointed with power to contract for the labor in lay ing the new crosswalks throughout the village. Top delivery as well as open business wagons suitable fir grocers, butchers, etc., Menendez can age repository, Bell more ; see adv. tf HEMPSTEAD' The Rich property, corner of Fulton and Washington Streets, has been leas ed to Isaac Kaiser of New York. business of Morris and Hendrickson and the post-office will be removed therein and the old building alongside will be removed to W ashing ton Street so as to afford room for the two additional brick buildings that are to be erected on Atlantic avenue. These, when completed, and in conjunction with the new bank building, will add considerably to the appearance of At- ] y ^ 'j lantic Avenue. Estimates furnished on your carnage repairing, painting and wheels repaired and rubln r lirod a,- well as'work called for and delivered, at Menendez,'-Bell- more Successor to Colvin A <’o tf George F. Ryan, M aster Mechanic of the Eastern Pennsylvania Railroad, of Pottsville. Pa., has accepted the posi tion of master mechanic, of the .■New er*- island Tra> lion Com pany at the power hou < - High St. called attention lighting service was very poor. He said that one night that week he hail | ridden around the village and found 36 ■ lights out. He understood that C. O. ; Niles, the trim m er, was out of town and had placed in charge of the lights who xvas not acquainted with To the Editor of the Review : In regard to the libel suits brought against me by the present trustees of a man who was not ncqu the Roosevelt school, 1 desire to say the work well enough to do it satisfac- Lhat any statem e n ts made by me affect- torily. He also complained of the way On Sunday, Nov. 3, Dr. and Mrs. J. ing the said trusteed were made during Mr. Niles had attended to his work H. B. Den ton can claim the distinction the heat of an election campaign when and said 'that he had never wanted him of having been m arried thirty-five things are sometimes said that might appointed anyhow. He suggested that years, the following entry appearing better have been left unsaid and what- Thomas W. Murray was a man well in a local p aper of that tim e : “ Mar- ever lanay have stated I never intend- fitted for such a place, honest, intelli- ried—A t the residence of Mr. D. S. ed to reflect on the honesty or integrity gent and willing and he thought it Denton, Hempstead, Nov. 3, 187£, by of the trustees and am sorry for hav- would be well to g e t rid of Mr. Niles in Rev. J. Taylor, J. H. B. Denton to ing made any utterances seeming to view of his having left the village for Miss M. Libbie Carman of Freeport.” ' reflect on them. two weeks or more without receiving Congratulations! 1 W. H. Tabb. j permission from his employees. His The M. L. 8. held its tirst meeting a f ter the Summer vacation at Miss H am ilton’s last Friday evening. The Society proposes to take up the Bay View reading course, “ Our Own Coun try . ” The members are planning to send another Christmas box to the Am ity mission. Mrs. |Chas. C. Smith died at her home Tuesday morning of diabetic coma. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in the M. P. Church, Rev. F. A. Smith officiating. Interm ent was t Greenfield Cemetery. Deceased was 43 years of age and is An unusual huge field of spectators' attended the football game that wa played at Greenlawn Park, on S a tu r - , day -afternoon last i i-twc-en the Lyn- brook Football ( lul and the strong team from the Pastim e Athletic Club of Jersey City. The teams appeared to be evenly matched in alm o tt every particular, and while a number of excellent play, j were made by both teams, the defense and offense was so evenly matched that the game ended in a tie, neither j team being able to score. Both team s ' w me loudly applauded by all p r e s e n t. for their excellent work. Next Saturday afternoon the Lvn- i brook team will play the strong team j from the Kappa Kappa Athletic Club, i: havi been i ■ ned for the wed ding of Ethel May Coot r, daughter of Mr. and M r . . Edward Cooper of Wiishington Street, v> John Brissel Wondhull of Brooklyn. The ceremony will Le performed in'ihe Cathedral of the l i .......... ' City. Satui dav i'.fterta i-r, November 2, at five o’clock. VALLEY STREAM Jacob Peters him purchased ‘230 lots at W alldorf Park of Emma J. Cong- don. ________ ____ __ _____ __ ___ ___________ r r ____ r r ............ ....... ........... F Announcement has been made of the survived by her husband, two daugh-! of Mount Vernon, at Greerdawn Park, engagement of Mias Mildred ‘Donahue, ters and three sons. j promptly at 4 o ’clock. to Alfred Cronacher.
